Growth Mindset Famous Failures - Inventors Reading Activity
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This includes FOURTY one-page write ups on famous failures who who invented items that your students will likely recognize or are celebrities!! It has a focus on their struggles, failures and how they overcame hardships to succeed. This is great to share with your students either in class, or in aPrice $11.00Original Price $16.00Save $5.00
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This includes TEN one-page write ups on modern famous failures who invented items that your students will likely recognize! It has a focus on their struggles, failures and how they worked to invent the well known products. This is great for a growth mindset or character building unit!
Each person has a reading passage with between 3-5 questions to answer when the reading is completed. The questions ask students to explore what this person had to overcome and what tools they used to persevere.
These reading passages are written at a 4/5th grade level. They would be perfect for any group of students reading at/around that level that benefit from high interest activities.
There are 3 format options of this activity included:
- article & questions all on 1 page
- article on one page, questions on another page - 2 page (good for front/back printing)
- digital version
- Note that all articles & questions are the same, only the format is different!
People included are the inventors of:
LEGOS: Ole Kirk Christiansen
TV: Phil Farnsworth
VIDEO GAMES: Ralph Baer
CELL PHONE: Martin Cooper
LAPTOP: Adam Osborne
HOVERBOARD: Shane Chen
RADIO TECHNOLOGY: Hedy Lamarr
REFLECTIVE GLASS: Katharine Blodgett
DIGITAL CAMERA: Steven Sasson
WINDSHIELD WIPERS: Mary Anderson
Print and go! Everything is ready for your students to learn about these "famous failures".
If you like this, check out my other "famous failure" reading sets:
⭐ Famous Failures - Celebrities version 1
⭐ Famous Failures - Celebrities version 2
⭐ Famous Failures - Women Inventors
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